The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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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.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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