Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI 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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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 only certainty is death.
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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.
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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