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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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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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

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

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