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

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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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
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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