A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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 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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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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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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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 only certainty is death.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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