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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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 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 used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking

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