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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

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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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 kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time

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

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