Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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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