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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBreathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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 lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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