Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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