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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise

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