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

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
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
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself

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