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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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water

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