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“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
“A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.”
“You have set yourself to the wrong purpose. It is not a happy life you want, but a beautiful one. The two are different things.”
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. The only thing that one really knows about human beings is that they are fickle.”