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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

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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
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

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