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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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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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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