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GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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