It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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