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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
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
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
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
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
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
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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