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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

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion 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

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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