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

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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Betrayal Leaving Man Risk Time
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Style Vision
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
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Age Boredom Cure Curse Strange
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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
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
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason

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