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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.

Guy de Maupassant

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
…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
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
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
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
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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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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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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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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