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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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