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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

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
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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
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
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
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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 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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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

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