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I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Moliere

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live

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