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

Guy de Maupassant

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

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