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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
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
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner

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