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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Hypocrisy Mathematics Vague
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Close Himself Life Prison Thinking Worst
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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