Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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