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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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