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To lie about a far country is easy.

Guy de Maupassant

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
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
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
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
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
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
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

To lie about a far country is easy.

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