A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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…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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You must render: never report.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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