We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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…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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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