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

Guy de Maupassant

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
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 entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

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