The only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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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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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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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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…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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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