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

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
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
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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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