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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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