Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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You must render: never report.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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