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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

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History is the science of what never happens twice.

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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

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You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

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We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

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