History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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…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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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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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