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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.

Guy de Maupassant

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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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Bed Born Death Life
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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

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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