Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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.
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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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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The only certainty is death.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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