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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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