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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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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
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Crumble Myself Rule See World
I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
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
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Passion Thinking True
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Fine Hide Love Man Passion
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring

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