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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their i...

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It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

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We only do well the things we like doing.

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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

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