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Guy de Maupassant

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
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

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