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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Topic: Husbands
Source: None
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Topic: Imitation
Source: None
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Topic: Jealousy
Source: None
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Topic: Journalism
Source: None
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Topic: Journalism
Source: None
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Topic: Joy
Source: None
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Topic: Laziness
Source: None
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The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with Revelations.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves...
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Topic: Loyalty
Source: None
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Topic: Luxury
Source: None
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On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Topic: Machine
Source: None
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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Topic: Martyr
Source: None
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Topic: Martyrs
Source: None
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Topic: Maturity
Source: None
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Topic: Morality
Source: None
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
Topic: Mothers
Source: None
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Topic: Optimism
Source: None
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
Topic: Perceptions
Source: None
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Topic: Perfection
Source: None
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Topic: Popularity
Source: None
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Topic: Present
Source: None
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Topic: Punishment
Source: None
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
Topic: Purity
Source: None
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Topic: Resolution
Source: None
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Topic: Romance
Source: None
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Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Topic: Scandal
Source: None
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Topic: Science and Technology
Source: None
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Topic: Senses
Source: None
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