I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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