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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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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
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Avoid Death Possible Skill Soldier Thinking
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Attention Attraction Engine Myself Rule Steam Support Weird World
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beautiful Light Love Sight Speed
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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God Help Man Place Youth
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Herself Love Man Woman Youth
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Obedience Oneself Please
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
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Afford Greatness Lifestyle Mindset Simplicity
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Concern Fools Small Thinking

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

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