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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Guy de Maupassant

…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’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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