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

Guy de Maupassant

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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
…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
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
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
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 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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

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

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