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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

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