The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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