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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
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A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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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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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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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 never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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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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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.