Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSince 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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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