I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWhatever 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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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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