You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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