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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Guy de Maupassant

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love

…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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