Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You must render: never report.
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