The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

I don't know who you are, " she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.

How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

Real life doesn't have to suck.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

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