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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

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
…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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
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

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