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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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 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 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
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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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

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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