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

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal

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

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