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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
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
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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

You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

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