We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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