You must render: never report.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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The only certainty is death.
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