The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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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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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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You must render: never report.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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The only certainty is death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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