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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

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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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
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
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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
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
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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