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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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