We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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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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