To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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