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Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Bad Fact Memories Myself
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Hard Soul Winter
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Emotion Ideas Judgement Life Mistake Public Shock
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Himself Interest Opinion Persuade Shepherd Try
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste
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
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Expectation Imitation Oneself
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Acquire Character Oneself Solitude
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Face Himself Love Pity Respect Sight
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
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
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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
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

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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