In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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 said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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