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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.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time

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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