Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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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 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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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