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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."

"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."

"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."

"I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away."

"Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter."
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