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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reaso...more

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

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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True friends stab you in the front.

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Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance.

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An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows ...more

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

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inv...more

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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistic...more