Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT…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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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.
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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You must render: never report.
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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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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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