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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

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Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde

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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love ...more

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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To become a work of art is the object of living.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hide...more

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My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call eith...more

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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at l...more