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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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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

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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