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A good book is an event in my life.

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation 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 love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion

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