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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
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
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World

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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