It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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