Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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The 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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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