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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
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Friendship Illusion Love
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Coward Enlightenment Heart Ourselves Reading
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
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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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Drag Genius Mindset Thinking Vulgar
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 boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth

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