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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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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk 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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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