In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTMilitary men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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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 sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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