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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

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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
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude

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