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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.

Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.