There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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