Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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You must render: never report.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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