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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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The heart was made to be broken.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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