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 MAUPASSANTThe English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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