Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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You must render: never report.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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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.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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