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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Guy de Maupassant

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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English Flavor Food
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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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Bed Born Death Life
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

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