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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 French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
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
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
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
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
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
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

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