Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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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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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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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You must render: never report.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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