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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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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