Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTMilitary men are the scourges of the world.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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