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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.

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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Act Follow Intimate Love
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
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
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Enjoyment Himself Idiot Imagination Life Man Sharp
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
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 difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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
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
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style 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
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.

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