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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic

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