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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.

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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Desert Faith Fool Happiness Life
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
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
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
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
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
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
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Himself Intimate Live Load Play Relate Travel Weapon
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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
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
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
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
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.

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