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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Happiness Intensity Love People
A good book is an event in my life.
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Book Goodness Life
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
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
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Different Known Mindset True
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Ignorance Impossible Literature Politics Vulgar Work
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
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
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
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
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Ability History Invention Qualification

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

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