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Spring appears and we are once more children.

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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water

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