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

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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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking

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

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