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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War

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