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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.