I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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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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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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