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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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The weather still continues charming.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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History is merely gossip

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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