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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Eyes Highway Mirror Novel Reflection Road
Our true passions are selfish.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion Selfish
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Myself Nature People Thinking World
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
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Business Important Life Love Myself Oneself
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
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
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
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
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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