The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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 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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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