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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
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

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