It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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…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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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