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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

Guy de Maupassant

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death

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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