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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Guy de Maupassant

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
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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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
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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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
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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Captain Government Responsibility
We 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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Anand Thakur
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

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