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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.

Guy de Maupassant

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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 said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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

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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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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