Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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