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

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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
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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