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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

Guy de Maupassant

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

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