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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’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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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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