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• Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.
• There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures…
• Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it,…
• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…
• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th…
• Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
• The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and…
• There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
• History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
• A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to…
• Time cures one of everything-even of living.

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