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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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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 basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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