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

Guy de Maupassant

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror

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