Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWords 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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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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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You must render: never report.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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