It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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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.
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