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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Guy de Maupassant

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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 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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
…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
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

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

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