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

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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
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 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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague

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