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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

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
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
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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 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
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

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