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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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

Spring appears and we are once more children.

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