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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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