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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

Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine

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