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“Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.”
“In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”
“A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.”
“To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.”
“Happiness is always a coincidence.”
“You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.”
“When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.”
“To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.”
“Theology is the logic of the Devil.”
“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
“Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.”
“The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.”
“Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.”
“There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.”
“Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.”
“Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.”
“A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.”
“The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.”
“If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.”
“Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.”