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Our true passions are selfish.

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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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