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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young

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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