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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
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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Bought Death Reality Thinking
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion

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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