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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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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
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
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking 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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

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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