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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."
Laughter
"Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night."
Wedding
"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."
People
"People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom."
People
"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
Thought
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."
Duty
"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
American
"The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends."
Being
"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
Awards
"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much."
Thought
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