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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

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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 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
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
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

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