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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
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
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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

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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