Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that its author is what it is.

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Without the critical faculty there can be no artistic creation worthy of the name... There is no fine art without self-consciousness, and self-consciousness and the critical spirit are one and the same; every subtle work of the imagination is conscious and deliberate. ... A work of creation that was not at the same time critical has never existed.

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Memory is the intimate diary that we always carry with us.

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Remembering:.. continuous creation.

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Selfishness is not living the way you want to live, but asking others to live the way you want to live, and unselfishness is giving peace to the lives of others, not interfering. Egoism always tends to create around itself an absolute typological uniformity...

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It is absolutely certain that if one lives only for himself, he pays a terrible price for it... in remorse, in suffering, in the consciousness of his own degradation.

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Selflessness recognizes infinite typological variety as a delightful thing, accepts it, approves of it, rejoices in its existence is not selfish if you think for yourself. The man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is terribly selfish, however, to force your neighbor to think the same as you, to have the same opinions.

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If a man does not have enough imagination to adduce evidence to support a lie, it is better to tell the truth from the start.

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The path of paradoxes is the path of truth. To verify reality, you have to see it on a tightrope. When truths become acrobats, we can judge them.

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I don't go anywhere without a diary. On the train, you should always have something interesting to read.

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I wouldn't change anything about England except the weather.

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I usually say what's on my mind. Nowadays that's a big mistake: you're too often misunderstood.

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I do not agree with everything I stated in this essay. I absolutely do not agree with many things. The essay simply develops an artistic point of view, and in art criticism position is everything. Because in art there is no universal truth. True in art is the truth whose opposite is also true.

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I put all the systems in one phrase and the whole life in one aphorism.

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I proofread the poem for half a day and removed a comma. In the evening, I put it back.

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Language is not the son, but the father of thought.

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I am a married man, but this is the beauty of marriage, that both parties are inevitably forced to perfect themselves in lying.

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I would like to remind those who scoff at beauty as something impractical, that an ugly thing is simply a badly done thing. In beauty there is a divine simplicity, it gives us only what is necessary; ugliness is wasteful, or of other things is always a sign that one has been impractical.

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I deeply pity the indignant English democrats. Of the so-called vices of the upper classes. People of the lower classes instinctively understand that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their privileges, and if any of us suffer from these vices - he thereby usurps their rights.

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I always amaze myself. That's the only thing worth living for.

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I always do this with good advice: I give it to others. I have nothing more to do with them.

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I have always believed, as I do now, that selfishness is the alpha and omega of contemporary art, but to be selfish, you have to have an ego. By no means, not to everyone who shouts, “Me! I!" they are allowed to enter the realm of art.

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I always have a very friendly attitude towards those I don't care about.

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I am the only person on earth I would like to know better.

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The boy wants to be faithful, but he is not; the old man would like to cheat, but he can't

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Often the echo is much more beautiful than the voice it repeats.

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There is an awfully hard activity: doing nothing.

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It's monstrous the way people behave today: they talk behind your back, and they tell the truth.

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This is not my business. That's why I'm interested. My affairs always give me an air of sadness. That's why I prefer the foreign ones.

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Aesthetics is superior to ethics. It is part of a higher realm of spirituality. In the formation of personality, even the sense of color acquired through it is more important than the knowledge of good and evil.

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I live in constant fear of being misunderstood.

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I knew a young man who ruined himself because of his bad habit of answering all letters.

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These gold rimmed cigarettes are terribly expensive. I only smoke them when I'm in debt.

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I would never have become his friend if I had known him. This is very dangerous - knowing your friends well.

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I don't like fights for any reason. They are always vulgar and often convincing.

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I don't approve of long engagements. This allows one to know the character of the other person, which, in my opinion, is not advisable.

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I don't like principles. I like prejudice better.

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I don't want to know what is being said about me behind my back. It flatters me too much.

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I don't believe a word you tell me... or you.

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I can resist anything except temptation.

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I love the stage, on it everything is more real than in life.

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I like hearing how others are insulted, but I don't - the last version has lost its novelty charm.

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I love men with a future and women with a past.

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I like to know everything about my new acquaintances and nothing about the old ones.

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I like to talk about nothing. That's the only thing I know about.

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The value of ideas has nothing to do with the sincerity of the person who expresses them.

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Man is less himself when he speaks of himself. Let him wear a mask and you will hear the truth from him.

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Man may believe in the impossible, but he will never believe in the improbable.

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The man who can command a conversation at a lunch in London can command the world. The future belongs to a dandy.

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The more art imitates an age, the less it conveys its spirit.

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The fewer the punishments, the fewer the crimes.

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The purpose of art is to discover beauty and hide the artist.

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The purpose of life is self-expression. The greatest debt is the debt to oneself.

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Worse than a marriage without love can only be a marriage in which love exists only on one side.

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Artists, like gods, must never leave their pedestals.

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The artist does not tend to prove something. You can prove anything, even undeniable truths.

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Christ did not die to save the world, but to teach us to save one another.

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May God protect you to be with a man and all your life to tend to form others. How narrow is the horizon of these people! How much they tire us, and probably themselves, by endlessly repeating the same thoughts!

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If you want to understand others, take a closer look at yourself.

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The more objective a work seems to us, the more subjective it is. Shakespeare may indeed have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the streets of London, or seen the servants of feuding families quarreling in the market-place, but Hamlet comes from his soul, and Romeo is born of his passion.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the unlucky.

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Exams mean absolutely nothing. If you are a gentleman you know as much as is necessary, and if you are not a gentleman, all knowledge does you harm.

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Egoism does not consist in the fact that man lives as he wants, but that he forces others to live according to his principles.

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Foreign dramas are always unbearably banal.

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The sense of duty is exactly what we want to see in others.

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A sensitive person is one who will certainly crush other people's bullshit, if she herself suffers from such a thing.

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People's feelings are much more interesting than their thoughts.

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To understand yourself at least partially, you must understand everything about others.

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To acquire the reputation of a wonderfully educated man, you must talk to every woman as if you were in love with her, and to every man as if you were bored with him.

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The members of the House of Commons have nothing to say and that is exactly what they say.

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What is the truth? When it comes to religion, it is nothing more than the known opinion that has managed to survive for centuries.

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What is a cynic? A man who values ​​everything, but does not know what is truly precious.

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To be natural, you need to be able to be a hypocrite.

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To regain my youth, I am ready to do anything; only not to get up early, not to exercise, and not to be a useful member of society.

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To conquer a man, a woman has only to awaken the worst in him.

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In youth, the whole kingdom is ahead. Each of us are born kings, and many, like kings, die in exile.

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He had a typical British personality. Such a personality type, that if you see it once, you don't remember it.

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I have no pretentious taste: the best is enough for me.

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Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals itself to us all, because it expresses nothing.

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There are as many meanings in beauty as there are human dispositions.

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Women who have passed have no future.

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Women just have amazing sense. They notice everything except the most obvious thing.

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Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.

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You have to choose your enemies very carefully.

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It is difficult to avoid the future.

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Work is the bane of the drunkard class.

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The three letters you wrote me after we parted are so good, and there are so many misspellings in them that even now I can't hold back the tears when I reread them.

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Unfortunately, half of humanity doesn't believe in God, and the other half doesn't believe in me.

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Wilde was asked to make a list of the best one hundred books. "This is almost impossible," he replied. I only wrote five".

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A crime is always a mistake. You should never do the thing you can't talk to people about after lunch.

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The right buttonhole is the only link that unites art and nature.

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A well-educated man contradicts others, and a wise man contradicts himself.

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A well-tied tie is the first important step in life.

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Good husbands are unbearably boring, and bad husbands are terribly trusting.

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The exchange of poisoned glasses serves as the basis of literary friendship.

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Frank Norris was invited to every decent English home - just once.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear other people's misery.

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Philanthropists, dealing with charity, lose all their humanity.

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I assure you that if the typewriter is played with feeling, it bores you no more than a piano played by your sister or any other relative.

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Temperance is a fatal quality. Only the extreme leads to success.

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It is humbling to realize that we are all made of the same dough, but where can you hide from this in Falstaff there is something of Hamlet, and in Hamlet no longer of Falstaff.

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Scientific conversation is the occupation of the unemployed mind.

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The happiness of the married man depends on those with whom he is not married.

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There are two ways to love art. One of them is to simply not love her. Another would be to love her rationally.

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Judging by their appearance, most critics sell for a reasonable price.

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Ancient historians give us delightful fiction in the form of facts, and modern novelists present dull facts in the form of fiction.

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Old people trust everything, mature people doubt everything, and young people know everything.

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Litigation is a very vulgar thing. In a good society everyone has exactly the same opinion.

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Modern memoirs are usually written by people who have completely lost their memory and have done nothing worth remembering.

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Modern women understand everything except their husbands.

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Advising people what to read is often useless or harmful. But telling people what not to read is a different matter altogether, and I would happily propose that this subject be included in an optional course of university studies.

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Conscience makes us all selfish.

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Listening is very dangerous: you can be convinced. And the man who yields to the arguments of reason is an extremely unreasonable creature.

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Tears are a refuge for bad women, and death for pretty ones.

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Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

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"How long could you love a woman who doesn't love you?"- "Who doesn't love me? All my life."

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A solid government is the empty hope of those who do not understand how difficult the art of government is.

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To those who are faithful in love, only its banal essence is accessible. The tragedy of love is known only to those who are not faithful.

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Today's journalists are always privately apologizing to people for what they have said about them and everyone has heard.

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The tragedy of old age is not that a man grows old, but that his heart remains young.

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The tragedy of the poor is that only selflessness is within their reach. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are a privilege of the rich.

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He who is preoccupied with the education of others, can have no time for his own education.

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He who looks at a thing from both sides usually sees neither.

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He who wants to attract people to himself, is obliged to follow the crowd.

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He who sees some difference between body and soul has neither.

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Only a really good woman can really do something crazy.

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Only shallow people know themselves.

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At present, all married men live as bachelors, and bachelors as married men.

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Nowadays, a good education is just an obstacle. It closes many doors in front of you.

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The world takes seriously those who claim to be good. Those who pretend to be bad, no. Water is the boundless stupidity of optimists.

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Only the auctioneer can in a balanced and impartial way admire all the schools of art.

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Only the great masters of style manage to be illegible.

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Only two types of people are really interesting: those who know everything about life and those who know nothing about it.

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The public looks at the tragedian, and the comic at the public.

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Punctuality is the thief of time.

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The play was a great success, but the audience suffered a resounding failure.

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Work is the last refuge of those who have nothing else to do.

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Divorces are consummated in heaven.

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Religions die when they have been shown the truth. Science is the chronicle of dead religions.

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The public is surprisingly tolerant. He will forgive you everything except genius.

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Forgive your enemies - that's the best way to get them out of your mind

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The past, present, and future are but a moment in God's eyes, and we must strive to live in his eyes.

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It's outrageous how many women in London flirt. With his own husbands. This is very disgusting. It's the same as doing your laundry in front of people.

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I'm sorry I didn't get to know you, but you've changed so much!

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Progress is the transposition of Utopia into life.

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Those who wish to have power over the people are able to conquer it only by following the crowd like slaves. And on the path to the gods goes only he whose opinions are shouted in the wilderness.

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There are no born liars and poets.

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Religion is a widespread surrogate for faith.

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Relatives are the most boring people, they don't have the faintest idea how we should live, and they can never tell when it's time to die.

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With bad women you find no rest, and with good women you suffer from boredom. Here is the difference.

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Telling the truth to a person's face is sometimes more than a duty - it is a pleasure.

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Severity is the last refuge of mediocrity.

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The family breaks up more often because of the sound judgment of the husband than because of other reasons how can a woman be happy with a man who persistently wants to see a rational creature by her side?

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The secret to staying young is avoiding bad emotions.

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Today, every great man has disciples, and his biography is usually written by Judas.

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Today, you can flirt until you're forty or be romantic until forty-five.

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To turn a man into a socialist is a trifle, but to make socialism human is a truly great deed.

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Holiness is born of love. Saints are the people who loved the most.

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With today's young people, you can't pull it off. They have no respect for dyed hair.

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The most solid foundation of marriage is the lack of mutual understanding.

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The surest consolation is to lay hold of another's admirer, when you lose your own. In high society this always exonerates the woman.

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The most unforgivable thing about a fanatic is his sincerity.

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Self-sacrifice must be prohibited by law. It corrupts those in whose name the sacrifice is made. They always deviate from the right path.

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Man always commits the most ridiculous acts for the noblest reasons.

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The pessimist, faced with a choice between two evils, chooses both.

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Having sympathy for the underdog is somewhat easier. Sympathizing with an idea is much more difficult.

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It's not just the most impenetrable people who are judged by appearances.

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There seems to be a certain strange relationship between piety and bad rhymes.

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The real mystery of life is in the visible, not the hidden.

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Polygamy? How poetic it is to have one husband or wife and to love several.

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Characters are needed in a novel not to see people as they are, but to get to know the author who is like no one else.

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A woman's first duty is to satisfy her seamstress. What his second debt consists of has not yet been discovered.

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Man's first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. The second duty of man has not yet been discovered.

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Cigarettes are a perfect form of ultimate pleasure, tender and sharp but leaving us unsatisfied. What else could you want?

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It's hard not to be unfair to the one you love.

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It is very dangerous to meet a woman who understands you completely. This usually ends in a marriage.

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Parents should neither be seen nor heard. Only on such a basis can a solid family be built.

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It is an ugly, unhealthy habit to tell the truth, to check whether everything you hear is true, and to object without hesitation in front of those much younger than us.

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Sometimes the least pleasure, in the theater, makes your play. More than once I saw spectators who were much more interesting than the actors, and I heard in the foyer a dialogue that exceeded what I heard on the stage.

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Depravity is a myth invented by virtuous people to explain the strange attraction between some people.

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After a good meal you forgive everything, even your brother.

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Nature imitates art. She is able to show us only those effects that we already know thanks to poetry or painting. Herein lies the charm of nature and, equally, the mystery of its flaws.

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Nature hates reason.

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Nature is not the mother who raised us. She is our creation.

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Joining civilization is very difficult. For this there are two ways: culture or so-called depravity. And both are inaccessible to the peasants. This is why they persevere in virtue.

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I confess that I cannot stand my relatives. This is because we cannot stand people with the same flaws as us.

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When I have major problems, I give up everything except food and drink.

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It's only good that it doesn't concern us. Hecuba is for us, and that is why her pain is such noble material for tragedy.

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The subject of passion is changeable, but passion always remains unique and unrepeatable.

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Epigonism is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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Burying her third husband, she went blonde out of desperation.

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Read Balzac aright, and our present friends will prove but shadows, and our acquaintances, shadows of shadows. One of the greatest dramas of my life is the death of Lucien du Rubempré.

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A poet can put up with anything but a typo.

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The truth is rarely clean and never simple.

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There are no warning signs. Nature does not send us messengers; she is too wise or too ruthless for such a thing.

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Morality has always been the last refuge of people indifferent to art.

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Today's youth imagine that money is everything. And with the passage of time, they really become convinced of this.

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Today's novels are so similar to life that we cannot trust their credibility.

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About Bernard Shaw: He is a wonderful person. He has no enemies and is loved by none of his friends.

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About music: How lucky we are to have only one imitative art!

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I have a very good opinion about football. It's a great game for brutal girls, but not for delicate guys.

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Nothing satisfies our vanity more than the reputation of a sinner.

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Nothing hurts a romance like a woman's sense of humor or a man's lack of it.

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Doing nothing is the most difficult occupation in the world, the most difficult and the most spiritual.

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No one is rich enough to buy their own past.

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None of us would put up with other people's mistakes like ours.

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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.

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Niagara Falls is the second disappointment of a young married woman.

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None of the errors cost us so cheaply as prophecy.

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About Irish writer George Murr: He wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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About one of the English novelists: He writes at the top of his voice. He is so vocal that no one can hear him.

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I love simple pleasures. This is the last refuge of complex natures.

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The orchid is wonderful as the seven deadly sins.

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They live a simple, healthy life in the country: they get up early, because they have a lot to do, and they go to bed early, because they have nothing to think about.

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She is made to be the ambassador's wife. He has an amazing ability to memorize people's names and forget their faces.

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She changed her husband several times, but kept only one lover, and therefore the gossip about her stopped long ago.

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She can speak brilliantly on any subject, provided she knows nothing about it.

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"I like her a lot, but I'm not in love with her." - "And she's in love with you, even though she doesn't really like you."

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Even in her old age she retained traces of her amazing ugliness.

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He is probably a very respectable man. I've never heard of him in my life, and that's a lot these days.

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Education is a wonderful thing. We need to at least sometimes remember that nothing you need to know can be learned.

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Society goes wild incomparably more because of the application of systematic punitive measures than because of occasional crimes.

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Society produces crooks, and education makes some crooks smarter than others.

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Only the gods have tasted death. Apollo is dead, but Hyacinth, who, according to the beliefs of the people, killed him, is still alive. Nero and Narcissus are always with us.

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He has one of those exceedingly weak natures which does not allow itself to be swayed in any way.

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He died. He probably gave too much importance to the diagnosis made by his doctors.

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You must always be in love. Here's why you should never get married.

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I hope you are not leading a double life pretending to be a lecher when in fact you are a virtuoso. That would be hypocrisy.

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In the exam, fools ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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In fact, it is not art that reflects life, but the viewer.

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When proposed to alter one of his plays, Wilde replied: "Who am I to dare to alter a masterpiece?"

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An idea that cannot be called dangerous does not deserve the name of an idea.

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We prescribe to our neighbor those virtues from which we can benefit, and we imagine that we do so out of generosity.

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We write so much that we don't have time to think.

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We live in an age where only unnecessary things are necessary.

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Musicians are a nation of irrationals. They want us to be dumb, when you want to be deaf the most.

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The music will be in German, you won't understand.

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Men think. Women just imagine they do.

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Men marry out of fatigue, women marry out of curiosity. Both are disappointed.

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Find words for your pain and you will love it.

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A true great passion is rarely found these days. This is a privilege of people who have nothing to do.

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There is nothing more dangerous than being fashionable. All fashionable things go out of fashion quickly. (paraphrased after Wilde)

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There is nothing more distressing than to find a virtue in a man that you would never suspect. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. It's like a revolver. If you have a virtue, you must announce it from the very beginning.

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There are no prying questions, there are only prying answers.

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There are no beautiful women - there are ugly and well-painted women.

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There are no moral or immoral books. There are well-written books and badly-written books. That's all.

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It is easiest to feign innocence through indiscreet behavior.

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The necessary condition of perfection is laziness; the goal of perfection is youth.

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I don't like it when people don't handle food properly. These are unprincipled and vulgar people.

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You can't trust a woman who doesn't hide her age. Such a woman can tell you anything.

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Simplicity is one of the seven deadly virtues.

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Don't let yourself be hindered from walking the wrong path! As a virtuoso, you want to be unbearably boring. This angers me in women. They definitely need a good man. But if he is good from the beginning, they will never love him. They must love him when he is bad, and forsake him when he is disgustingly good.

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Not the sinner, but the fool is the greatest of our evils. There is no sin but stupidity.

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Don't tell me about the sufferings of the poor. They are inevitable. Talk to me about the sufferings of geniuses and I will cry tears of blood.

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People always laugh at their personal tragedies - the only way to get over them.

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People interest me more than their principles, but the most interesting people are people without principles.

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Art people have sex, but art itself has no sex.

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People have become so industrious that they have become extremely stupid.

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People learn to hide their ignorance just as they smile to hide their tears.

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People are in most cases quite actively interested in everything that happens in the world, except what is really worth knowing.

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It is curious that ugly women are always jealous of their husbands, and beautiful women never. Beautiful women don't care about it - they are jealous of other people's husbands.

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Every trial is the trial of someone's life, and every verdict is a death sentence.

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Love is nourished by repetition, and only repetition turns a simple desire into art.

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Loving a married woman is a big deal. Married men never even dreamed of such a thing.

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Self-love is a novel that lasts a lifetime.

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Love has gone out of fashion, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about her that everyone stopped believing in her.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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Between a whim and eternal love the only difference is that a whim lasts a little longer.

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The man who stubbornly does not want to marry becomes a permanent public temptation.

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he is not in love with her.

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A man always wants to be a woman's first love. Women are finer in such matters. They would like to become a man's last love.

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America's youth is the oldest of its traditions. She is already more than three hundred years old.

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The prayer must remain unanswered, because it would no longer be a prayer, but a correspondence.

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My duty consists in what I do not do on principle.

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My bad qualities are just awful. When I remember them at night, I fall asleep on the spot.

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We can say a lot in defense of modern journalism. By giving a voice to the uneducated, he introduces us to public ignorance.

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We can admire a foreign language even if we cannot speak it, just as you can love a woman without knowing her closely.

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Fashion is such an unbearable infamy that we have to change it every six months.

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The world is created by poets, for dreamers.

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Charity causes many sins.

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Beauty is a gift for several years.

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Beauty is the ultimate revelation because it expresses nothing.

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The critic is meant to educate the reader, the artist is meant to educate the critic.

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Criticism requires much more culture than art.

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I have no one to talk to but myself.

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Beauty is one of the types of genius, even more so than genius, because it does not require understanding.

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When a person comes to visit, he wastes the hosts time and not his own.

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Looking back on life so terrible, so full of turmoil, full of moments of frenzy and hot joys, all this seems like a dream or an illusion. What is the unreal, if not the passion that once burned like a fire? What is incredible if not the things you once passionately believed in? What is the impossible? Which you once did yourself.

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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

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When art becomes more varied, nature will doubtless become less homogeneous.

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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

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As soon as man reaches the age at which he must understand, he ceases to understand anything.

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He who treats life like an artist, his brain replaces his soul.

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Someone said about women that they love by hearing. And men love with their eyes.

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In America, hero worship is unusually developed, and heroes are always selected from among criminals.

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Love always promises something unrealizable and makes you believe in the impossible.

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To love all is to love none.

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Any extremely intense emotion tends to be released by any opposite emotion. Hysterical laughter and tears of joy are examples of the dramatic effects that nature itself provides.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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The best school for studying art is art itself, not life.

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It is better to have a hundred sins against nature than one virtue against nature.

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It is better to adore than to be adored. Enduring someone's adoration is boring and painful.

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It is better to be beautiful than virtuous. But on the other hand, it is better to become virtuous than unfeeling.

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The London fogs did not exist until they were created by art.

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A lie is other people's truth.

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Only the modern can go out of fashion.

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Because man cannot create anything by himself, he can become a worthy judge of the creations of others.

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It is precisely the passions whose nature we misunderstand that dominate us the most. And the weakest are feelings whose origin is clear to us.

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Keeping secrets from other wives is, nowadays, a necessary luxury. But trying to hide something from your own wife is an unforgivable superficiality. She will find out anyway.

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Sometimes it is said that the actors show us Hamlet as they see him instead of the one Shakespeare painted. But in fact there is no such thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet. If in Hamlet there is the clarity of a work of art, there is also an amount of mystery in it as in any phenomenon of life. There are as many Hamlets as there are types of melancholy.

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Intellectual abstractions are always interesting, but moral abstractions mean absolutely nothing.

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Sincerity is dangerous in small doses, and deadly in larger doses.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world, and the artist is the only man in the world who is never serious.

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Art should by no means be accessible to everyone. The public must tend to the education of the artistic sense.

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Of all the painters I knew, only the mediocre ones were charming people. The gifted live by their creation and are therefore rather uninteresting in their own way. A great poet - really great - is the most prosaic person. Second hand ones are charming.

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The ideal man must speak to women as he does to goddesses and treat them as he does children.

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Do you know how much curiosity a woman has? It almost surpasses that of men.

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Hula is gossip with an air of boring morality.

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Mirrors only reflect masks.

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By legislation men cannot be directed to virtue, and that is a good thing.

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Journalism is a form of organized slander.

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Life imitates Art more than Art imitates Life.

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Life is never fair. For most of us, maybe that's better.

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Life is too important a thing to talk about seriously.

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Art is a cover rather than a mirror.

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Art creates great archetypes in relation to which all that exists is but an unfinished copy.

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Both church theory and practice in the early centuries of Christianity opposed marriage. That is why the church from the first centuries of Christianity did not survive until today.

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How easy it is to win others over to your faith and how difficult it is to win yourself over.

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Like all orators who make it their aim to exhaust the subject, he exhausted the patience of his hearers.

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Like most American women, she thinks she is a beautiful woman. This is the secret of his success.

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Anyone can create history, but only remarkable people are able to write it.

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Anyone can write a three-volume novel. All you need for this is to know neither life nor literature.

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Everyone should go to a fortune teller at least once a month to know what is allowed and what is not. Then, of course, we turn everything upside down, but how nice to know the consequences in advance!

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Everyone must be a work of art or carry a work of art with them.

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The history of women is one of the most terrible histories of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. That is the only form of tyranny that still exists.

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Only characters who never existed in reality are truly real; and if a novelist is so helpless, he looks for his heroes in the midst of his life, at least to pretend to have invented them himself, and not to boast that they resembled certain models.

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Art creates its incomparable unique effect, after which, having achieved it, it moves on to something else. And nature repeats this effect over and over, until it bores them all to the hilt. Nowadays, let's say, no one endowed with even rudiments of culture will make a speech about the beauty of the sunset. Sunsets have gone out of fashion. They were good in the old days, when Turner had the last word in painting.

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I have not become a deranged man. Many even claim that I have never done anything really bad in my entire life. Of course, they only say this behind my back.

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Truth never depends on facts, he selects and creates them as he pleases.

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Truth ceases to be truth as soon as more than one person believes it.

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Truth is wholly and absolutely given by style.

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True personality must not be in tune with rebellion, but with tranquility.

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True love forgives all crimes except the one against love.

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Life offers man, at best, a unique, unrepeatable moment, and the secret of happiness lies in repeating that moment as often as possible.

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Life is the best theater, but, unfortunately, the repertoire is a little bad.

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Life is the rarest thing on earth. Most people are only aware of its existence.

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Life is only a quarter of an hour made up of miraculous seconds.

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Women have become so educated that nothing surprises them anymore - except a happy marriage.

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Women treat us, men, like humanity treats its deities: they worship us and bore us by constantly asking us for something.

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Women give men the most precious thing in life. But I always ask for it back, down to a penny.

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Marriage affects man as much as countries, but it costs much more.

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The thirst for knowledge is the fruit of long years of study.

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"There is a saying that after death good Americans are sent to Paris." - "And the bad ones?" - "In America."

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There is something tragic about the fact that in England today there are a great number of young people who begin life with wonderful intentions and end it by engaging in some useful activity.

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Nature is just a picture, and the most irritating of all that I know.

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If you tell the truth, sooner or later you will be caught anyway.

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If the play is a work of art, then staging it in a theater is a test not for the play, but for the theater; and if it is not a work of art, its staging in the theater is not a test for the play, but for the audience.

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If nature is matter that tends to become soul, then art is a soul that expresses itself materially.

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If the lower classes will not set us an example, then what good are they?

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If a man once loved a woman, he would do anything for her except one thing: to keep loving her.

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Femininity is the quality I admire most in women.

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You can't disarm women with a compliment. On men, yes. That is the difference.

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The woman is like a sphinx without secrets.

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Women usually hold all the trump cards, but they always lose the last hand.

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Women are in a much more advantageous position than men: there are more restrictions for them.

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Women love us for our flaws. If the faults are many, they are ready to forgive us everything, even if we are sane.

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Women are the decorative sex. They have nothing to say, but everything they say is charming.

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You can always trust a woman because she doesn't remember anything important.

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A woman should never be too exact about her age. This brings pedantry.

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The woman thinks about nothing or thinks about something else entirely.

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The woman first rejects the man, and then she won't let him go.

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A woman can make a man godly in only one way: by boring him so much that he loses all interest in life.

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The woman will flirt with anyone, just to be looked at by someone at this time.

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All charming people are immoral. This is the secret of their beauty.

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All lament the misfortunes of their friends, but few rejoice in their success.

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All good hats are created out of nothing; so are all good reputations.

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You always have to play fair if you have all the trumps in your hand.

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It's always nice not to come where you're expected.

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All the beauty of the past lies in the fact that it is past. And women never notice that the curtain has fallen. They need the sixth act too!

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Everyone calls experience their own mistakes.

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We are all ready to trust others for the simple reason that we fear for ourselves. Optimism is rooted in pure fear.

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We all wallow in the mud, but some of us look to the stars.

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All men are animals. There is only one thing left for women to do, and that is to feed them better.

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Anything can be overcome except death; anything can be borne except a good reputation.

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All women eventually become like their mothers. This is their tragedy. No man is like his mother. And this is their tragedy.

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All outstanding personalities are destined, sooner or later, to be at the level of his biographers.

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All American girls possess an exceptional charm, the secret of which lies in their inability to talk seriously to anyone but their barber, and to think seriously of anything but amusements.

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All dirty poetry is born of a sincere feeling. To be natural is to be clear, and to be clear is not to be an artist.

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Any rules about what you should and shouldn't read are just ridiculous. Modern culture is based more than half on what not to read.

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If a woman looks ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly happy with that.

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If you want to know what a woman is really thinking, look at her, but don't listen to her.

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If you are leaving for a short time, I am ready to wait for you for a lifetime.

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If he had known less, he would probably have become a poet.

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If only we men would marry the women we deserve, it would be too bad for us!

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If, nowadays, the ancient Greek were resurrected, we would meet him more often in the circus than in the theater.

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If England treats all her prisoners as she treats me, she does not deserve to have them at all.

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A bishop at the age of eighty continues to repeat what was instilled in him when a youth of eighteen, — it is clear that his figure retains its beauty and pleasant appearance.

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Every portrait made out of love is, in essence, the very portrait of the painter, and not of the one who took the picture. The painter does not show him on the canvas, but himself.

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Anyone who has lived among the poor will agree that human brotherhood is not an empty invention of the poets, but the most oppressive and wretched reality; and if a writer really endeavored to know the manners of high society, he might arrive at an understanding of them with the same success, if he painted match-sellers or fruit sellers.

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Every influence is harmful, but the beneficial one is the worst in the world.

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Every crime is vulgar, just as every vulgarity is a crime.

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Profanity is simply the behavior of other people. The others are generally a terrible audience. The only good company is yourself.

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Yesterday she was wearing a lot of make-up, and very little clothes. In a woman you always find a sign of desperation.

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A great passion - this is the only thing the non-working class is capable of.

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What is the difference between journalism and literature? Journalism is unreadable, while literature is unreadable.

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In church, everyone must be serious except those they worship.

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In its defense, journalism can invoke the great Darwinian law of the survival of mediocrity.

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In Russia, nothing is impossible except reform.

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In a conversation you have to address any topic without focusing on anything.

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In the past, writers wrote books and readers read them. Now readers write books and no one reads them.

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Underlying every gossip is a well-verified lack of morality.

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In our time, it is dangerous for a husband to pay attention to his wife in society. Everyone will think he's hitting on her when they're alone. Now they are so suspicious that they seem to have a happy marriage.

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In our society, the only class that thinks more about money than the rich is the poor class. Poor people can't think about anything else but money.

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Only two tragedies are possible in our life. The first is when you don't get what you want, the second, when you do. The second one is worse, this is truly a tragedy!

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Generosity is not contagious.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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Faith does not become reality just because someone dies for it.

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Time is a waste of money.

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He has no enemies because he is not such a remarkable person.

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Imagination is given to man to console him for what he does not have, and humor to console him for what he has.

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In a tuxedo and white tie, anyone, even a stockbroker, could be mistaken for a man of culture.

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In all trivial situations, style is important, not sincerity. In all serious situations, the same.

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There are only five women in all of London worth talking to, and two of the five have no place in decent society.

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Love begins with people deceiving themselves and ends with deceiving the other.

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A thing existing in nature becomes much more beautiful if it reminds us of an object of art, but an object of art does not become truly beautiful because of the resemblance to the object existing in nature.

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The whole world is a theater, but the troupe of actors has no value.

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Fidelity! Someday I will analyze this feeling. In it lies the greed of the owner. Many things we would willingly give up if we were not afraid that someone else would take them.

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We can only trust those portraits in which the models are barely visible, but in which, instead, the artist is visible.

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Most of our modern portraitists are destined for oblivion. They never portray what they see. They only portray what the audience sees, and the audience sees absolutely nothing.

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Being in society is just boring. Being out of society is already a tragedy.

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Being natural is a very difficult position - you won't last!

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In America, the young are always ready to share with the mature all their baggage of inexperience.

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Most people go bankrupt because they put too much capital into the prose of life. Ruining yourself on poetry is at least honorable.

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Atheism needs religion no less than faith.

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England and America are two nations separated by a common language.

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The English have the magical gift of turning wine into water.

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America was discovered several times before Columbus, but no one was told about it.

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The actor - here is the drama critic. Music critic is the singer or the violinist or the flautist.

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In America, in the Rocky Mountains, I saw the only reasonable method of criticizing art. In the bar, above the piano, hung a sign: "Don't shoot the pianist - he's doing his best."

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In England we have wonderful poetry, because the public does not read it, and therefore does not influence it in any way.

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In England, unless a person speaks at least twice a week on morality before a vast and absolutely immoral assembly, the arena of politics is closed to him. As for the profession, she only has botany or the church.

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In our time, nothing makes a more favorable impression on the public than a thoroughly worn common place. All suddenly feel a certain kinship between souls.

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Nowadays, to be understood is to be confused.

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In our century, personalities rule, not ideas.

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In our century, too many people read a lot to be wise, and too many people think about how to be beautiful.

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In our century the newspapers try to force the public to judge the sculptor not by his sculptures, but by the way he behaves with his wife; on the artist, according to the amount of income, and on the poet, according to the color of the tie.

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There are too many women in London who trust their husbands. You know them from afar - they look so unhappy.

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Books in popular series tend to exhibit popular opinions as well as cheap criticism in cheap editions.

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The truths of faith are believed not because people are rational, but because they are often repeated.

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In art as in politics, old men are never right.

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There is nothing difficult in life. We are difficult. Life is too important to be taken seriously.

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America is the only society that has progressed from barbarism to decadence without civilization.

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I'm not young enough to know everything.

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When I didn't know life yet, I wrote. Now that the meaning of life has been revealed to me, I no longer need to write. Life cannot be written, only lived.

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He is truly the one who gives in to all his moods.

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Being alive is one of the rarest things in the world, because most people just exist.

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It's easy to be virtuous in the countryside. There is no temptation there. This is why people who don't live in the capital are so uncivilized. Civilization is not that easy to get at all. There are only two ways to get hold of it. One way is that we are educated, the other is that we are corrupt.

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Women can endure suffering better than men. They live from their feelings.

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I can resist anything but temptation.

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But look into my eyes, and it will do, because my mouth and lips cannot sing; if you don't understand that either, let's part quietly.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over reason, just as men represent the triumph of reason over morality.

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I consider life much more important than I could seriously talk about it.

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You can live for years without really living, and then suddenly the whole life is condensed into a single hour.

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Women are meant to be loved, not understood.

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I never put off until tomorrow what I can put off until the day after tomorrow.

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Crying is for simple women. Pretty women go shopping.

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Even if reading a very modern novel is so much fun - when we read it a second time, we rarely feel artistic satisfaction. Perhaps this is the best test of whether a book belongs to literature or not. If we cannot re-read a book with pleasure, then there is no point in reading it at all.

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Every woman becomes like her mother. This is their tragedy. The man will never be like that. And this is his tragedy.

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Anyone in the world can have common sense, provided they have no imagination.

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- I don't understand women well enough. - (...) Women want love, not understanding.

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What a silly thing love is. (...) It is not half as useful as logic, because it does not prove anything. And he always tells you about things that don't happen, and he always makes you believe something that isn't true.

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Be a true lover, for love is wiser than science, though it is wise, and stronger than power, though it is strong. Its wings are flame-colored and its body is colored like a flame. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like incense.

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The king ordered that the little boy's salary be doubled. However, since he was not paid a penny, he did not gain much with it, but everyone considered it a great honor and it was published according to its order and manner in the court newspaper.

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I hate people who always talk about themselves, like you, when you want to talk about yourself, like me. Selfishness is the best word for this, and selfishness is a very abominable thing, especially in the eyes of my own kind, since I am well known for my compassion.

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You can believe that if I knew you, I wouldn't be your friend at all. Knowing your friends is a very dangerous thing.

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Hard work is simply the salvation of those who are good for nothing else.

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Daydreaming is the privilege of the rich, not an occupation for the unemployed.

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There is no moral or immoral book. There are only books that are well or poorly written.

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There are few of us who have not woken up before dawn on some days, even after those sleepless nights during which we almost fell in love with death.

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When people talk about others, they are mostly boring, but when they talk about themselves, they are almost always interesting.

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Those passions are most tyrannical over us, the origin of which we hide from ourselves. Our weakest motivations, the nature of which has become self-conscious in us.

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He who constantly scrutinizes his past does not deserve to have a future.

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From an artistic point of view, life is mostly a failure from what gives it its dirty little security: that we can never experience the same feeling twice.

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Experience - that's what we call our mistakes.

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I don't want to be addicted to my feelings. I want to use them, enjoy them and dominate them.

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You explained me to myself. (...) I felt everything you said, but somehow I was afraid of it and didn't dare to say it.

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If I want to, if I don't, I have to tell you everything. You have a special influence on me. If I ever committed a sin, I would come here and confess to you. And you would understand.

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The only charm of the past is that it is the past.

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Sin is something that is written on a person's face. Sometimes they talk about secret crimes. There is no such thing. If a wretched man has sin, it shows in the line of his mouth, in the bend of his eyelids, even in the shape of his hands.

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Never say that you have exhausted Life. When a man says this, you know immediately that Life has exhausted him.

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Every time we love, we always love first. The fact that the object is different does not change the uniqueness of the passion. It just reinforces it.

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Romance lives on repetition, and repetition turns stimulus into art.

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The basis of all rumors is that someone is immorally honest.

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Every crime is common, just as commonness itself is a crime.

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The soul is a terrible reality. You can buy, sell, exchange. It can be poisoned and repaired.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own vileness.

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True love listens and suffers.

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To be good is to be in harmony with yourself.

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Nature is not our property: we must pass it on to our children as we received it.

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A kiss is not just a sign of two bodies, but a great connection between two souls. A message from the Eternal Spirit. Moreover, if it can be called sinful - this kiss! - and if we've waited so long for it, maybe we're heading towards our doom with it.

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But what's the point of friendship if you can't say what's on your heart? Everyone can be nice, say nice things and flatter, but a real good friend always says unpleasant things and doesn't care about causing pain. What's more, the true loyal friend almost looks for the opportunity, because he knows that he is doing good for him.

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Many people act correctly (...), but speaking even fewer speak correctly, which proves that speaking is the more difficult and subtler of the two.

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Keep my image here, even if it's only a shadow, And don't look at anything that doesn't show Me. My soul is jealous of what your eyes delight in.

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To love: the meeting of two worlds, a constantly renewing, eternal exchange.

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He who dreams dreams wastes time.

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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complicated man.

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The mind itself is a certain exaggeration and breaks the harmony of the face. As soon as one sits down to think, one becomes full of noses, full of foreheads or other such monstrosities.

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- What is art? - Disease. - The love? - Dazzling. - The religion? - A fashionable substitute, instead of faith.

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A man can only be happy with a woman until she loves him.

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Perhaps we are never more natural than when we are playing a role.

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Only two kinds of people are truly charming: the one who knows everything in the world and the one who knows nothing in the world.

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I am beginning to believe that when God created man, he somewhat overestimated his own abilities.

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No life is ruined, only the one whose development is stopped.

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Every nook and cranny we love is a world to us.

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There are some subtle poisons that, once we learn about their properties, we get sick. There are some strange diseases that we have to go through in order to know their nature. And yet what a great reward we receive in return. How wonderful the whole world becomes before us! (...) We can never pay enough for an experience.

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The great poet, the truly great poet, is the most unpoetic being in the world. But the minor poets are decidedly charming people. The worse their poems, the more picturesque their appearance. The mere fact that someone has written a second-rate book of poetry makes him simply irresistible. He lives his poetry, which he cannot tire of. The others write the poetry that they do not dare to make come true.

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People like to give something that they themselves need the most. This is what I call true generosity.

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Most people go bankrupt because they invest too much in the prose of life. To be ruined for poetry is a glory.

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When someone loves someone, they always start by deceiving themselves and end by deceiving others.

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Ordinary women never stir our imaginations. In fact, they are locked in their age, no magic can transform them. Their souls are as easy to recognize as their hats. We find them everywhere. There is no mystery in any of them. They ride in the Park in the morning, chat over coffee in the afternoon. They always have the same smile and polite manner. But the actress! How different an actress is!

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Those who love only once in their life are actually the shallow ones. What they call constancy or loyalty, I would rather call the dullness of indifference or lack of imagination. Faithfulness in the emotional life is what consistency is in the intellectual life - it is simply an admission of incompetence.

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A man marries because he is tired, a woman marries because she is curious: thus both are in bad shape.

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Nowadays, most people get killed by slipping smartly on the ground, only to discover too late that we never regret one thing, our left step.

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We only have to repeat our former follies, and we will be instantly rejuvenated.

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There is something terribly sick about the modern age's love of pain. Let's love color, beauty, joy of life! And talk as little as possible about the sadness of life!

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Behind every great thing is something tragic.

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I choose my friends from the beautiful ones, my acquaintances from the characterful ones, and my enemies from the smart ones. We can never be too careful in choosing our enemies. I don't have a single enemy who is a jackass.

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Ordinary people wait until life reveals its secrets to them, but to the chosen few, the mystery of life is revealed before the curtain is pulled aside.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, as soon as they attack with sudden and strange submissions.

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Criticism in the highest sense sees masterpieces only as a starting point for the creation of another masterpiece.

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The life we ​​live is messy, but there is something terribly logical about our imagination. Imagination incites remorse in the wake of sin. The imagination cultivates that every evil deed must bear a conceived, distorted womb.

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The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that saints have a past and sinners a future.

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After a good dinner, you forgive anyone. Even his own relatives.

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life happen in such an inartistic way that they offend us with their gross sloppiness, complete confusion, incompetent senselessness, and utter lack of style. They affect us like the audience itself. They subjugate us by sheer brute force, and we rebel against it. Sometimes, however, a tragedy occurs in our lives that has the artistic elements of beauty. If these elements of beauty are real, then the whole case only captures our sense of dramatic scenes. At the same time, we feel that we are no longer actors, but spectators of the play. Or rather, both actors and viewers. We watch ourselves, and the sheer magic of the game also enchants us.

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I like acting. More likely than life.

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Women, as a wise Frenchman once said, give us the inspiration and desire to create a masterpiece, but they always make it impossible for us to do our masterpiece.

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Being worshiped is unpleasant. Women treat us as mankind treats its gods. They are praying to us and constantly asking us to do something for them.

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The one who is forced to be in harmony with others is confused. One's own life is the only thing that matters.

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We like to think well of others because we are afraid of ourselves. Optimism is only based on fear. We think we are generous because we endow our neighbors with virtues from which we want to benefit. We praise the banker, believing that he will pay more for our voucher, and we find good qualities in the highwayman, hoping that he will not empty our pockets.

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The real downside of marriage is that it makes you selfless. And selfless people are colorless. They have no personality. But there are certain people for whom marriage makes it more complicated. They retain their sense of individuality and extend their selfishness to other individuals. They are forced to live multiple lives. They become refined, and refinement, in my view, is the goal of human life. Otherwise, every experience is valuable, and whatever they say against marriage, marriage is an experience.

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I never approve and never disapprove of anything. It is impossible to take a stand against life in this way. We are not on earth to spout our moral prejudices.

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Anyone who does something terrible is always acting from the noblest of motives.

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The less honest a person is, the more likely it is that his thoughts are sane, because then neither his will, nor his desire, nor his prejudices distort him.

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Spirit outlives Beauty. This also explains why we try so hard to over-cultivate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we need something that is not ephemeral, and so we fill our souls with all kinds of limlom and data, in the Octonian hope that we will stand our ground with it.

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Every social class preaches the importance of those virtues, which there is no need to practice in their own lives. The rich man talks about the preciousness of frugality and the poor man raves about the dignity of work.

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The essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The amateur writes when he feels like it; the pro even if there is none.

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Because it's better to live in love Just like for a day. How to go through the decades without him!

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Whoever tells the truth will sooner or later be pinched on the neck.

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Everyone is the devil of their own life and makes it hell.

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London has a lot of fog and a lot of serious people. I don't know whether the big fog is due to the many serious people, or the many serious people are due to the big fog.

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Men marry out of fatigue; women out of curiosity: but all are disappointments in the end.

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The worst thing about romances is that they make you completely unromantic by the end.

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Even the most ordinary thing becomes sweeter if you hide it.

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Every picture painted with feeling is the painter's portrait, not the model's.

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One cannot be too careful in choosing one's enemies.

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The tragedy of old age is not old age, but youth.

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Everyone is treading on the mud, but some are looking at the stars.

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All things in measure, even measure in measure.

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Art begins where copying ends.

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To influence someone is to give them our own soul. The person does not think natural thoughts and does not burn with natural passion. His virtues are not his virtues. His sins, if there are sins, he only borrowed. He will be an echo of someone else's music, an actor in a role that was not written for him.

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Sometimes it is said that Beauty is only a superficial thing. Possible. But at least it's not as superficial as Thought.

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Young men want to be faithful but cannot, old men want to be unfaithful but cannot.

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They have a very crushing effect on us - not the sins committed by the wicked, but the punishments inflicted on them by the good.

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Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

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The purpose of life is self-development.

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Women give us the gold of our lives, but they immediately demand it back in exchange for change.

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He who has a talent for a passion and does not experience that passion deprives himself of the content of his being.

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The world is the same for all of us: good and bad, sin and innocence go hand in hand in it.

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There is a secret to dealing with women: court them if they are beautiful, and court others if they are not.

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There is no sin but stupidity.

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Bigamy means having one more wife than necessary - so does monogamy.

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Everything can be survived these days - except death.

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The wallpaper and I are in mortal combat. Either me or him, but one of us has to go.

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Only the rich think more about money than the poor.

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My taste is as simple as possible. I get by with the best of everything.

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I like listening to you talk. Nothing can be more beautiful. I often engage in long conversations with myself and I'm so high-flying that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.

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I always think of myself and I expect the same from everyone else. I call this sympathy.

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Only shallow people don't judge by what they see.

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Man is many things, but he is not a thinker.

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Action is the refuge of those who cannot dream.

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There's only one thing worse than being talked about. And that is if they don't talk at all.

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No great artist sees things as they really are, or he would not be a great artist.

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There are a lot of things that we could throw away if we weren't afraid of someone picking them up.

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Death can be so beautiful. To lie in the soft, brown earth and listen to the silence while the blades of grass sway in the wind above one's head. There is neither yesterday nor tomorrow. One forgets time, forgives life, and rests in peace.

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Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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The faithful know only the mundane side of love; the unfaithful know the tragedies of love.

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We live in an age where art is seen as a form of autobiography. We have lost our abstract sense of beauty.

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I like talking to the wall. The wall is the only thing that never contradicts me.

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I choose my friends by their looks, my acquaintances by their character, and my enemies by their intellect.

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Life is always hardest where you live.

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The old man believes everything, the middle-aged man doubts everything, the young man knows everything.

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It's not the perfect who need love, it's the imperfect who need love.

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All art is useless. Art does not imitate life, but life imitates art.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh or they'll kill you.

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The only thing we can do with good advice is pass it on.

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Dissatisfaction is the main driving force in the progress of a man or a nation.

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No one can be rich enough to buy back their past.

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Love always begins by deceiving ourselves and usually ends by deceiving others.

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Man can believe in the impossible, but he cannot believe in the improbable.

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A woman is only completely satisfied if she looks at least ten years younger than her own daughter.

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Education is something worthy of recognition, but it doesn't hurt to remember from time to time that what is really worth knowing cannot be taught.

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A person is least himself when he speaks in his own form. Give him a mask and he will tell the truth.

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The heart is made alive by being wounded. Pleasure can turn the heart into stone, wealth can make it crusty, but sorrow cannot break it.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

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Today, people know the price of everything, but they don't know the value of anything.

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Music brings to life in our souls a past that we do not even know, and it awakens in our souls an inkling of suffering that our tears know nothing about.

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

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Without love, life is nothing more than an uncarved rock that rests at the feet of the divine sculptor in the quarry.

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Truth in religious matters is simply the opinion that has survived.

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A true friend attacks directly.

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If you don't stay away for long, I will wait for you here all my life.

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We got our imagination to compensate for what we couldn't be, and our sense of humor to take solace in what we did become.

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them more than that.

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The only thing we know for sure about human nature is that it changes.

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If men married women they deserved, they would be in a very bad place.

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The sure basis of marriage is mutual misunderstanding.

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An egg is always a big adventure: maybe this will be something else.

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It is easy to share a friend's sorrow, but it shows extraordinary character if we are able to share his joy over his success as well.

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Beauty, like Wisdom, favors solitary worshippers.

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We are all wading through sewer dirt, but there are those among us who look to the stars.

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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

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Something in us has died, now Hope has died.

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When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life; now that i'm old i know it is.

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The corner we love from the bottom of our hearts is the world.

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Morality is simply the attitude we have towards people we personally dislike.

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Anyone who stretches as long as their blanket will reach has a poor imagination.

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Life is never fair - and perhaps for most of us it's a good thing that it isn't.

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Nowadays, private information is the basis of all major wealth acquisitions.

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I remember reading somewhere, in some strange book, that the gods, if they want to punish us, fulfill all our wishes.

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When people agree with me, I always feel like I said something wrong.

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As for me, I like poets who can write poetry, doctors who can heal, and painters who can paint.

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We are only young once, after that we have to find another excuse.

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Friendship never forgets. That's what's so wonderful about it.

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Knowing that you can love and be loved gives life a warmth and richness that nothing else can replace.

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Children start by loving their parents, then they grow up, judge them, and sometimes even forgive them.

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The works of art are different, but the essence of the artistic effect is unity.

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There is always something funny about the suffering of those we no longer love.

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We always misunderstand ourselves and rarely understand others. Experience is not a moral value. It is merely a name which men give to their errors.

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A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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A dreamer is one who sees his way only in the moonlight. And his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the others.

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Music is the most perfect type of art. Music never reveals its ultimate secret. This is how we understand the value of limitation in art. The sculptor easily gives up on color, the painter on real size. With this renunciation, they can avoid a very comprehensible rendering of reality, a bare imitation, and an overly comprehensible, intellectual representation of thoughts. It is through its imperfection that art achieves perfect beauty.

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It doesn't matter what people say about you. It just matters who says it.

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The truth is the hardest thing to say and the most painful thing to hear.

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How pleasant it is to know the feelings of others - much more pleasant than knowing their thoughts.

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There are only two tragedies in the world. One is when someone can't get what they want, the other is when they get it.

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There is something luxurious about self-accusation. When we scold ourselves, we feel that no one else has the right to scold us. Confession absolves us, not the priest.

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When our eyes met, I felt myself turn pale. A strange dread came over him. I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose sheer individuality was so captivating that if I let it, it would take over my whole being, my whole soul, and even my whole art.

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Losing a parent can perhaps be seen as bad luck. Losing two, on the other hand, seems careless.

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Art is more of a veil than a mirror.

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The truth is never clear and rarely simple.

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When a person is in love, it means that he surpasses himself.

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Humanity takes itself very seriously. This is the original sin of the world. If the caveman had been able to laugh, History would have turned out differently.

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Even the bravest person among us is afraid of himself. The savage's self-mutilation lives on tragically in the self-denial that limits our lives. We are punished for the things we refuse. Every impulse that we try to stifle grows in our soul and poisons us. The body sins once and is done with its sin, because action is a way of purification. Nothing remains of it, only the memory of a pleasure or the pleasure of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give in to it. Resist him, and your soul will become sick of longing for what you yourself have forbidden yourself, of biliousness for what monstrous laws have made monstrous and lawless.

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Being natural is the most difficult pose a person can assume.

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After the first glass, you see things as they are, After the second glass, you see them as you want them to be, After the third glass, you see them as they really are, And this is the most terrible thing in the world.

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When a love ends, the weak cry, the practical immediately looks for another love, but the wise already have one in reserve.

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A gentleman never hurts anyone at random.

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Gentle, delicate people are always like that. Their strong passions either destroy everything, or they themselves crumble. Either they kill someone or they themselves perish. Little by little sorrows, little by little love cats live on. But great loves and great sorrows are lost by their own fulness.

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Life is a big, big disappointment.

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Laughter is not a bad beginning of friendship, and it is definitely the best ending.

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You love everyone, which means that everyone is indifferent to you.

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- What did you tell me? Just that you feel that you really admire me. That's not even a compliment. - That wasn't even a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I've done it, I feel like something has come out of me. Perhaps one should never put into words one's worship.

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Nothing heals the soul like the senses, but nothing heals the senses like the soul.

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To define is to limit.

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Unbelief is the beginning of Faith.

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How many things we would throw aside if we weren't afraid that others would pick them up!

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An artist who does not create purely for his own beauty cannot be considered an artist.

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The perfection of man lies not in what he possesses, but in what he is.

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We have no yesterday and no tomorrow. We forget time, we forget life, and we are at peace.

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The world is a stage, but the cast of the play is bad.

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Pain rules the world, and there is no one who can escape its web.

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Insult me, throw mud at me, but for God's sake, look at me.

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Every man wants to be a woman's first love, and women want to be the last in a man's life.

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I'm not a cynic, I just have experiences, which of course are almost the same.

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If a man has ever loved a woman, he will do everything for her, except that one thing, to keep loving her.

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Women love with their ears, men with their eyes.

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The purpose of life is to develop ourselves. Perfectly realizing our nature - this is the purpose of all of us here. People are afraid of themselves these days. They have forgotten their first and greatest duty, the duty they owe to themselves. Of course they are merciful. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls are fasting and naked. Courage is no longer known to the human race. Maybe we were never really brave. Fear of society, which is the basis of morality, fear of God, which is the secret of religion - these two things govern us.

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I love talking about nothing. This is the only subject I know a little about.

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The coward's weapon is the kiss, the brave is the sword.

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While sympathy for joy increases the amount of joy in the world, sympathy for pain does not reduce the amount of suffering.

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It's much safer to beg than to steal, but it feels much better to take something than to beg.

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Always. A terrible word. I shudder to hear it. Women love to use it. They spoil every romance because they want it to last forever. Otherwise it's a silly word. The only difference between a running adventure and a passion to the grave is that the running adventure lasts a little longer.

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Your youth will last a very short time, a very short time. The common wildflower withers, but then blooms again. By June, the golden rain will be as yellow as it is now. In a month, red stars will light up on the ribbon, and the green night of its leaves will shake its red stars every year. But we will never get our youth back. The pulse of joy that pulsates within us in our twenties slows down. Our limbs fall asleep, our senses become numb. We grow into hideous babies, and the memory of the passions that we were too afraid of, the divine temptations that we dared not yield to, torments us. Youth! Youth! There is nothing else in the world but youth.

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Conscience and cowardice are actually one and the same (...). Conscience is the registered name of the company. That's the only difference.

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Beauty, true beauty, ends where meaningful imagery begins.

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The real mystery of the world is what is seen, not what is unseen.

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I gradually grew to love the secret. This is almost the only thing that can steal some mystery and wonder into our lives today. Even the most ordinary things are lovely as soon as we put them away.

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The most terrible things are always prompted by noble motives.

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I remember you once saying that there is always something fatal about good resolutions - that they are conceived late.

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Convincing others is easy. Convincing yourself is much more difficult.

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Whoever has winning cards always plays fair.

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- Uncertainty is so sweet. Mist makes objects look wonderful. - But we can't see the road in the fog. - (...) All roads lead in the same direction. - Where? - To disillusionment.

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However, sometimes he is terribly careless, as if he takes pleasure in causing me pain. That's when I feel, Harry, that I've given my whole soul to someone who treats this soul like a flower in a buttonhole, like some weak piper that only flatters his vanity, like an ornament for a summer day.

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A pessimist is someone who, when given a choice between two evils, chooses both.

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Any portrait painted with real feeling is a portrait of the artist and not of the model. The model is just a mere circumstance, an occasion. It is not him that the painter unmasks; rather, it is the painter who reveals himself on the colorful canvas.