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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

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