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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Guy de Maupassant

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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 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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
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

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