To lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTGreat 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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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You must render: never report.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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