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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True

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