To lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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