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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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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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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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