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"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

"For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out."

"We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters."

"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."

"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."

"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."

"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."

"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."
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"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."

"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."

"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."

"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."
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