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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
…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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
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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