I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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The only certainty is death.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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