Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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You must render: never report.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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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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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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Those 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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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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