A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTo lie about a far country is easy.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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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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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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