…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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