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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
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
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
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
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

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