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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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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
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

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