Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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