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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Guy de Maupassant

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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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 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
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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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