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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Advice Friendship Mad Myself Pay
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
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 more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Pleasure Time
Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Appearance Children Ourselves Spring
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
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
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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Ignorance Love Man Move Talk Vanity
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Bought Death Reality Thinking
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Fever Love Process Willing
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Animal Desire Fashion Greatness Luxury Majority Man Possession Woman Young

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