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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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All art is quite useless.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
