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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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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