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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Guy de Maupassant

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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
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World

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