Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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 secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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You must render: never report.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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