The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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…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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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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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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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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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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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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