Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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