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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Guy de Maupassant

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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision

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