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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travellers, twice or many times older than they, rev...

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We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world, so that the first thing we should do is to study tha...

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And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris wi...

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Attainment and science, retainment and art—the two couples keep to themselves, but when they do meet, nothing else in the world matters.

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In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was th...

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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

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I never meant to deny the moral impact of art which is certainly inherent in every genuine work of art. What I do deny and am prepared to figh...

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Darling, you know, I have a most ambitious fantasy.

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Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.

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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

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Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets

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When there are monsters there are miracles.

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A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.

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Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

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If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.

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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

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