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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.
No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?
She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
I never actually plan sequels. They demand to be done.
To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.
Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.
The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.
Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.
Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.
No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.