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A good book is an event in my life.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
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
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself

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