The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
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The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
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