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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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