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

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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
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
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
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
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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

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