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The only certainty is death.

Guy de Maupassant

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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 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
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
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
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
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
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel

The only certainty is death.

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