The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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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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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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