Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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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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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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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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