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Guy de Maupassant

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
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 sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
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

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