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• I see but one rule: to be clear.
• The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it…
• It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
• I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
• The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
• The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
• The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in…

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