Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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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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…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 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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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The only certainty is death.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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