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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove 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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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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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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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You must render: never report.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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