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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.

Guy de Maupassant

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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 sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
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
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying

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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