I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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…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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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