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As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
To define is to limit.
A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
For there would be a real pleasure in watching it. He would be able to follow his mind into its secret places. This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.