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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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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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
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
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Feminine Himself Terrible Weapon
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
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
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Kind Vice Worst
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

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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