She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous po...
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
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Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.
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Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It ...
