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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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