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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

Guy de Maupassant

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
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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Bed Born Death Life
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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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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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Anand Thakur
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself

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