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Guy de Maupassant

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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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 said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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

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