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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTMilitary men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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