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
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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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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