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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

Guy de Maupassant

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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
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 must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

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