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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

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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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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Anand Thakur
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
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
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

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