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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Guy de Maupassant

You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

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