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Is she such a mystery? She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. Moods don't last. It is their chief charm.
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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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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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.