It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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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 entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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