I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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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.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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You must render: never report.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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