Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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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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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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