In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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