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.
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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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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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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You must render: never report.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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