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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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The only certainty is death.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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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 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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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 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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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