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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always ...more

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I'm too old to know everything

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accu...more

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthu...more

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we a...more

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...more

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

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!