Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSince 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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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You must render: never report.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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