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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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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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style 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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
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
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 is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick

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