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.
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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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