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

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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
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
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

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