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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.

Guy de Maupassant

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You must render: never report.
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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