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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

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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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

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