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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.