Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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You must render: never report.
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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 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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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