We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThose men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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 kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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