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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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
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
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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

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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