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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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

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