Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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