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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification
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 do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
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
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
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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