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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.

Guy de Maupassant

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
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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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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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Bed Born Death Life
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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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
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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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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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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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