Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future 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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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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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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