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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
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
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality

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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