The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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You must render: never report.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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