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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.

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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
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 difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young

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