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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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