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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTo avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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