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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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