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Salonnire Inspirational Quotes (698)

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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
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As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
George Sand
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Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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I want a dress the color of suffering
Rachilde
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
Sophie Swetchine
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Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour. (Nothing is real but dreams and love.)
Anna de Noailles
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If God exists, Id be the first to be told.
Anna de Noailles
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Madame de Stael
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
Madame de Stael
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... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
George Sand
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
Sophie Swetchine
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude Stein
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
Gertrude Stein
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distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.
Margaret of Valois
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
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Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Margaret of Valois
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Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
George Sand
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