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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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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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring

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