In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSolitude 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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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