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 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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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You must render: never report.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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 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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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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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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