Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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You must render: never report.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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.
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