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

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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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water

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