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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
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
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
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

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