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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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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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
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
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
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
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
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

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