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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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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
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
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 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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