We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove 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 simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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