Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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