To lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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