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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever…
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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their…
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted…
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Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.
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Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be…
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The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken…
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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My…
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There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself…
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever…
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit.…
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but…
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played…
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To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of…
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