The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSolitude 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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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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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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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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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You must render: never report.
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