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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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You must render: never report.
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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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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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