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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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You must render: never report.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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 only certainty is death.
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