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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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