You must render: never report.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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