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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Concert Imagination Politics
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Report Representation Word
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People

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