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

Guy de Maupassant

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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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
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
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
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
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

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