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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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Writing bores me so.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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