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

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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
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
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Charm Earth Event Present
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
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
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
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

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