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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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