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

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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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife

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