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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

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Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

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Remarks are not literature.

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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

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What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

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Let me listen to me and not to them.

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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

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Very likely education does not make very much difference.

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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

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If you can do it then why do it?

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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