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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
Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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End Feeling Fools Grief Life Myself Success
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision

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