Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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