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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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

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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