Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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