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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou must render: never report.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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You must render: never report.
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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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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Love 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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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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