A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI 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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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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