Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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…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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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