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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Description Happiness Spoil
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
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Difficult Escape Generation Sick
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 very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Born Degree Hope Love Small
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Death Fools Grief Man Ordinary Personage Powerful Procedure
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Art Escape Logic Science
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Life Misery Short Time
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Carry Main Mirror Novel Road
Far less envy in America than in France.
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Feeling Jealous Place
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
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Distance Imitation Time
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Clear Rule See
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God Ideas Religion
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
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young

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