A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove 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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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