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The only certainty is death.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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 only certainty is death.

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