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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
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
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
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman

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