You must render: never report.
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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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 only certainty is death.
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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 have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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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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