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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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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
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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