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• Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
• Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
• As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
• She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education.…
• I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live…
• Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
• There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
• The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to…

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