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

Guy de Maupassant

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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
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 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
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
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
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
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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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word

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