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

Guy de Maupassant

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
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
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
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
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
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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

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

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