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Our true passions are selfish.

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The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman

Our true passions are selfish.

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