Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

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Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.

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I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.

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Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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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.

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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.

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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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