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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

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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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 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
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
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
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking

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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