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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
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
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
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 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
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road

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