Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.Oscar Wilde
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures
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