To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove always has its price, come whence it may.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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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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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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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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You must render: never report.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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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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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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