The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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You must render: never report.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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