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To lie about a far country is easy.

Guy de Maupassant

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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
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

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