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A burnt child loves the fire.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Music is the perfect type of art.

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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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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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