I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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