The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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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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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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…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 said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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The only certainty is death.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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