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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere 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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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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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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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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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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