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Military men are the scourges of the world.

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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
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
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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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth

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