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Military men are the scourges of the world.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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