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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. - Author object (124)

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. - Author object (124)

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Author object (124)

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Author object (124)

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. - Author object (124)

Everything in moderation, including moderation. - Author object (124)

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. - Author object (124)

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. - Author object (124)

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives. - Author object (124)

Nowadays 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. - Author object (124)

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. - Author object (124)

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. - Author object (124)

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Author object (124)

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. - Author object (124)

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. - Author object (124)

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. - Author object (124)

I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after. - Author object (124)

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties. - Author object (124)

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Author object (124)

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. - Author object (124)