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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Guy de Maupassant

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
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

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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