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"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,

"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,

"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,

"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."

"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."

"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along."
May,

"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
May,
Explore more quotes by Brigitte Bardot

"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."

"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."
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