History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The only certainty is death.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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