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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Guy de Maupassant

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
…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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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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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