To lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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