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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
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
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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Bed Born Death Life
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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

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