We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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