It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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