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A good book is an event in my life.

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves
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
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
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
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
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

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