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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
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

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