Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTMilitary men are the scourges of the world.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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You must render: never report.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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.
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The only certainty is death.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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