I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTravel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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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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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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