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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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
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

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