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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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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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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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