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
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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 secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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 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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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