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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Man,
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
Will
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Truth
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
Success
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
Life
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
Literature
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
News
"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
Admiration
"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
Audacity
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
Commonplace
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
Truth
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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