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The only certainty is death.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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
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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live

The only certainty is death.

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