There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTravel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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