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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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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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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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