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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Anxiety Conscious Evidence Family Heart Intimacy Life People Polite Quality
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life Ourselves Perspective Wrong
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Average Feeling Greatness Lady Remark Rich Society Woman
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Character Occasion Thinking Work Yourself
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Happiness Love Power Source
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Absence Class Education Energy Family Love Necessary Struggle Survive
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Fashion Hide
God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Excuse Existence God Himself
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
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Noble Past Reading Style Time Writing
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Alcohol Bottle Champagne Moral Physical Poison
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
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Accomplishment Creature Extreme Greatness Possible
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman

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