Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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…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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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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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