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... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
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...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Altruism and Cynicism
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Altruism and Cynicism
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.
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Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
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Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Law and Politics
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