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Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were n...more

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There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

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Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the ...more

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. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their app...more

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love wil...more

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I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,

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Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heres...more

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Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

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He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a ...more