The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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You must render: never report.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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