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.
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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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