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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

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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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Anand Thakur
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live

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

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