The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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 only certainty is death.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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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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…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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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You must render: never report.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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