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

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
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
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
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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 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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror

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

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