You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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You must render: never report.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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