Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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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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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Love 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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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