Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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You must render: never report.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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