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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

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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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

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