Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove always has its price, come whence it may.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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You must render: never report.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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