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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Guy de Maupassant

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing

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