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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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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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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...more

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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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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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 se...more

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

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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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Bronze-limbed and well-knit, like a statue wrought by a Grecian, he stood on the sand with his back to the moon, and out of the foam came white arms t...more

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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