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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

Guy de Maupassant

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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 must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision

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