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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.

Guy de Maupassant

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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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 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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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