The only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Anguish 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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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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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