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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Guy de Maupassant

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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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