"When good Americans die they go to Paris."
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"As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
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"A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."
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"Ah, on what little things does happiness depend."
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"What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."
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"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea."
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"Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
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"A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
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"Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them."
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"A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another."
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"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
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"Art never expresses anything but itself."
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"It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming."
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"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."
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"I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone."
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"You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him."
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"It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage."
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"One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."
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"I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."
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