"Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same."
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
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"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
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"All art is quite useless."
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"As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection."
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"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
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"I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws."
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"Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening."
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"History is a lie commonly agreed upon."
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"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."
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"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."
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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 about life's sores the better."
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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things."
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"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
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"What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine."
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"Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians."
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"Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty."
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"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness."
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