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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

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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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

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