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" A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. "
Happy
Conversation
Marriage
" A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. "
Marriage
Nation
Without
" An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. "
Age
Stand
Artist
" A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. "
Successful
Marriage
Day
" Business is a combination of war and sport. "
Combination
War
Business
" Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. "
Funny
Know
Simple
" Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. "
Growing Old
Time
Habit
" If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. "
Men
Desire
Events
" If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. "
Character
Create
Habit
" If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. "
Strive
Value
You
" In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. "
Literature
Others
Dating
" Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. "
Lost
Every
Illusion
" Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. "
Work
Woman
Man
" Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. "
Men
Born
Early
" Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. "
Men
Modesty
Pass
" No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. "
Does
Who
Eccentricity
" Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. "
Soul
Age
Evil
" People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. "
Fool
Intelligence
Man
" Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. "
Us
Compassion
Fool
" Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. "
Self-Confidence
Smile
More
" Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. "
Temperament
Style
Material
" The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. "
Difficult
Part
Opinion
" The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. "
Effectiveness
Work
Progression
" The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. "
Too
Past
Meditation
" The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. "
Quality
Leader
Most
" The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life. "
Really
Great
Life
" There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. "
Poison
Truth Is
Truth
" To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. "
Enough
Too Much
Too
" We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. "
Like
Us
Those
" We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. "
Humanity
Love
Worst
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