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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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 kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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 only certainty is death.
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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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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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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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