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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

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