Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe 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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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 have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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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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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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You must render: never report.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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