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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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