The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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 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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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You must render: never report.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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