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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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