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

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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
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
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
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay

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