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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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Personal Development
"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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Personal Development
"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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Personal Development
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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Personal Development
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love
"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty
"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"
Nature
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Art
"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."
Man
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