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

Guy de Maupassant

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
…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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
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
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
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision

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