The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The only certainty is death.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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 must render: never report.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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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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