Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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