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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
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time

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