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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"My hobbies are reading, writing, listening to music and dancing."
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"Never get out of bed before noon."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
Time
"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
God
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
Death
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
Fortune
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
Wisdom
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
Adversity
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
Love
"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."
Nature
"But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself."
Philosophy
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