I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.

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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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