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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.

Guy de Maupassant

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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion 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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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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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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