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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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

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