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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst

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