I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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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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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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 must render: never report.
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The only certainty is death.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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