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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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