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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

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
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
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War

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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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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