Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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 simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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