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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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The only certainty is death.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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 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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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