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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

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There are days when solitude 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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: January 28th, 1873

Died: August 3rd, 1954

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