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"There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands."
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
"Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring."
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."
"Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder."
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have."
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid"
"A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about."