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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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you will always love, and you will always be loved

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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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.

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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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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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