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.
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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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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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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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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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