It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything 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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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