It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBreathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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You must render: never report.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Everything 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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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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