We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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You must render: never report.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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