A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

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Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

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