Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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You must render: never report.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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