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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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