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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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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

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