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

Guy de Maupassant

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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
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
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

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