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I see but one rule: to be clear.

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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
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 like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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