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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

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Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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