The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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You must render: never report.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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