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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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

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