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

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
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
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death

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