Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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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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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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You must render: never report.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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