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

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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
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 wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Courage Examination Myself Religion Sin Thinking
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Happiness People Pleasure Reading Remind Suffering
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Fear Love Ourselves Proportion
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

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