I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The only certainty is death.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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