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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
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
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth

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