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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.

Guy de Maupassant

Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
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

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