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Guy de Maupassant

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
…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
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision

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