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" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. "

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" Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. "

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" The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. "

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" Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. "

" Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. "

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" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "

" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "

" In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. "

" It is always the unreadable that occurs. "

" If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. "

" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

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" I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. "

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