A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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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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…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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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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