The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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You must render: never report.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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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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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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