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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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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 books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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