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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
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
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
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
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
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
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 think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman

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