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"One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."


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"I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty."

"He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment."

"It was the passions about whose orgin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us."

"He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"There was something fascinating in this son of Love and Death."

"Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."

"Was there anything so real as words?"

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."