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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
