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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.

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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
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
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Career Divine Offend Pain Vulgur
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Comparison Death Love Pay Standard Thinking True
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset

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