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

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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
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
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

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