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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 describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom

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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