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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
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
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
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
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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