The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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You must render: never report.
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