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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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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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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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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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