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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

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When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ↗

— Mae West

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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. ↗

— Joss Whedon

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Patience – A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see. ↗

— Joss Whedon

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If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

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Good and great are seldom in the same man. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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