The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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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
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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 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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