"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
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"Life is too short to learn German"
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"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
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"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be."
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"Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation."
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"I have a simple taste, only the best."
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"A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it."
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"Any place that we love becomes our world."
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"Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. 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."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"Art only begins where Imitation ends."
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"Every woman is a rebel."
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"I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses."
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."
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"Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored."
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"Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood."
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"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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