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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
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
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife

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