I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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