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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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