Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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