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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

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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine

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