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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
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
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality

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