The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe 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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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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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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