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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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 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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal 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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present

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