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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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
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.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing

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