"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
-Honore de Balzac
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"Love is the poetry of the senses."
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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