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Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.