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

Guy de Maupassant

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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 sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
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
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live

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