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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

Moliere

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
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
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

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