The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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