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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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One should always be in love.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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