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1  She is more than an individual.
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2  Perhaps you will tire sooner than he will.
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3  You like your art better than your friends.
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4  I like Wagner's music better than anybody's.
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5  I am no more to you than a green bronze figure.
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6  But he is much more to me than a model or a sitter.
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7  It will never be older than this particular day of June.
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8  My wife is very good at it--much better, in fact, than I am.
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9  I have never been in better form for painting than I am to-day.
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10  He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
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11  Yes," he continued, "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun.
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12  It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
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13  And beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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14  As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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15  I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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16  It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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17  When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
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