Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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