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

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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
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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

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