History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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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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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