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"I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."

"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."

"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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