To lie about a far country is easy.
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 entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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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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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 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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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