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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy de Maupassant

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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
…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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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

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