Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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 sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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You must render: never report.
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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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