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.
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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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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You must render: never report.
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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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