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.
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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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 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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Every 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 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 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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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