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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

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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
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
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
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
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 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
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work

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