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GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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