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No good deed goes unpunished.

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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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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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's fr...more

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The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge t...more

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world...more

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red...more

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.