We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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The only certainty is death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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