Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

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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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You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

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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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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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