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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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• Writing

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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• Writing

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

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• Love

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

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• Books

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

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• Love

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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• Love

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

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• Life

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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• Life

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

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• Love

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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