One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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You must render: never report.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The only certainty is death.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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