Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEvery government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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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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…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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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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