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.
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 said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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…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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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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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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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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