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- To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why…
- Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
- Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
- One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I…
- The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
- If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
- Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till…
- Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
- Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
- In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
- While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
- To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any…
- Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic…
- Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young…
- Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither…
- Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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