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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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Time is a waste of money.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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