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
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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