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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Guy de Maupassant

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
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 have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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

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