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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Guy de Maupassant

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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 Death Government People Right
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
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

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

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