Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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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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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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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