Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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The 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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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You must render: never report.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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