Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.
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I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
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If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.
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I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.
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I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
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People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.
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I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.