Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The only certainty is death.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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