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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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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
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Emotion Preference Reason Woman
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
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
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter

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