Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTConversation. 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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The only certainty is death.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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 strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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