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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.

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
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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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
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
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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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible

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