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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

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Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

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Man is the inventor of stupidity.

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The woman who loves always smells good.

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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

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Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

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Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: April 4th, 1858

Died: September 27th, 1915

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