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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep

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