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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality

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