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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.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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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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