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

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Court Herself Sister Woman Yourself
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
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 man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
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

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

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