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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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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Beautiful True
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
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
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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