It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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You must render: never report.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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