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.
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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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