…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove always has its price, come whence it may.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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