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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is man...  
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves fla...  
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.  
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strateg...  
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of...  
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero...  
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being o...  
Great writers are the saints for the godless.  
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. ha...  
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be ph...  
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, s...  
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.  
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.  
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but i...  
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Wom...  
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which ...  
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life...  
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.  
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it ...  
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes yo...  
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a pub...