The only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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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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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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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’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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