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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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I walk the world in wonder.

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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Love is easily killed.

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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I never change, except in my affections.

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