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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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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
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Emotion Search Woman
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life
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
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Birth Man Pride Rich Surround Wound Young
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Government Habit Music Passion Race Reason
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Novel Production Reading Soul Sound Violin
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
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
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Description Diminish Happiness
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
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Glory Himself Imagination Noble War
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Boredom Destroy Herself Marriage Youth
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Bored Goodness Sorrow Taste

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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