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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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You must render: never report.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The only certainty is death.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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