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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

Guy de Maupassant

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
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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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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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