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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Guy de Maupassant

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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 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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
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
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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

One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

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