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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

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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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Astonishment Death Government People Right
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
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
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
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
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
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight

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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