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

Guy de Maupassant

…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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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

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

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