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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
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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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

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