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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Assurance Court Forever Man Pay Power Ruin Thinking
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
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Call Choice Fortune Way World
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
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Moments Music Phrase Thinking Woman
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
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
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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