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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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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
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
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

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