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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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You must render: never report.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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