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"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
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"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
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"Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear."
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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

"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
Reading

"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

"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion

"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
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