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

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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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
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
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
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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

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