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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

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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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