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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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

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