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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTo lie about a far country is easy.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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