Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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You must render: never report.
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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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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