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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason 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
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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

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