Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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