Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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You must render: never report.
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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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