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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Lips Offering
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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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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Development
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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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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Misunderstand
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?

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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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You must render: never report.

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You must render: never report.
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Report
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.

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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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 Oneself Word
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.

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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom
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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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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Drink Oneself
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish
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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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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