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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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
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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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
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
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Feeling Impression Love Man Passion Woman
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Fear Personal Quick Shock Thing
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True

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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