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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.

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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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

God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.

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