Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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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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