In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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