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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

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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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

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

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