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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
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
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War

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