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

Guy de Maupassant

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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.
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Goodness Life Love
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love

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

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