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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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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
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
Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Blurry Direct Impact Mindset Music Sadness Time Vision
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Enough Feeling Love Myself Ugly Wisdom
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
The difference breeds hatred.
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Breed Difference Hate One Liner
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Draw Face Husband Kill Public Room Wife
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Authority Distance Sight Subject
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
There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Cold Hungry Law Natural Need Strength Suffering
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Beautiful True
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Appointment Happiness Wisdom Woman
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Opinion Public Small Unity
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love Matter Myself Ourselves

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