Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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