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GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The only certainty is death.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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.
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