Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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 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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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 have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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