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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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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 very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
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
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 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

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