One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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 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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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