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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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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
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
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
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
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
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

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