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

Guy de Maupassant

Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
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
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

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

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