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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

Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
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
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
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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

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