I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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

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Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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