Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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You must render: never report.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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