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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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You must render: never report.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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