We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou must render: never report.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The only certainty is death.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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