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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
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
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
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
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love

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