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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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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
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

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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