The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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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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…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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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The only certainty is death.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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You must render: never report.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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