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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Author object (124)

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. - Author object (124)

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Author object (124)

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. - Author object (124)

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. - Author object (124)

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. - Author object (124)

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Author object (124)

Punctuality is the thief of time - Author object (124)

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Author object (124)

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. - Author object (124)

When Oscar Wilde was asked in an interview to list his 100 favorite books he said he could not. When asked why, he replied, 'Because I have only written five. - Author object (124)

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. - Author object (124)

Each of us has heaven and hell in him... - Author object (124)

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. - Author object (124)

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. - Author object (124)

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied - Author object (124)

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. - Author object (124)

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. - Author object (124)

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Author object (124)

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level. - Author object (124)