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

Guy de Maupassant

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time

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