History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBreathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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