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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.
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Clear Rule See
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War

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