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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Guy de Maupassant

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
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
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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