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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
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
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset

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