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In fact living is dying.
The only certainty is death.
You must render: never report.
To lie about a far country is easy
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
Military men are the scourges of the world.
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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.
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.
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.
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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.
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.
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.