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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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
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
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
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live

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

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