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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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No gentleman ever has any money.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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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. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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And if it feels good... Feel it!

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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