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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

Guy de Maupassant

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
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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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

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