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"Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?"
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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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"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
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"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
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"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."
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"I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all."
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"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
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"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
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"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
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"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
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"Inspiration comes of working every day."
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"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
Literature

"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
Love

"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
Religion
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