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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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