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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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