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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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success

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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