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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur

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