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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant

…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
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
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
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 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
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
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

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