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
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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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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