It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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