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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time

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