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 MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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