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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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 boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World

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