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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

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