The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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 bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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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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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