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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

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself

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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