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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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