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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
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
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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 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
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
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
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

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