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love-is devastation likes
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
heart way affection
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
heart wealth treasury
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
coffee struggle moving
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
flames two hypocrisy
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
cutting men genius
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
sleep sometimes
Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
girl men devil
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
mind benevolence persecution
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
fate men joy
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.
land race care
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.
dog art wind
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.
men self doe
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
horse heart intelligent
When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.