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“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's”
― Madame de Stael, De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations

“Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”
― Coco Chanel

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.”
― Paul Valéry

“Si nous résistons à nos passions, c'est plus par leur faiblesse que par notre force.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?”
― Samuel Beckett

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
― Stephen King

“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
― Woody Allen