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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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