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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere 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 only certainty is death.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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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You must render: never report.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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