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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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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