"Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority."
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"Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
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"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
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"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears."
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"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story."
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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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"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
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"God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal."
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"The heart was made to be broken."
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"Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you."
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"I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out."
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
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"Talent borrows, genius steals!"
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"The best revenge is to live well."
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"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
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"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."
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"Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them."
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"Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate."
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"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man."
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